Gas Station Queen

Gas Station Queen (1963)

Королева бензоколонки

Lyudmila doesn't have any luck in finding the perfect job. She tried to be an air hostess, newscaster, model, ice skater, but fate had something else in store for her - a petrol station, where her incredible positivity and fiery personality charm everyone around her.

Date of release
1963-02-18
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (53)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Aleksey Mishurin, Mykola Litus

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: 100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema

Queen of the Gas Station is a 1963 Soviet comedy film directed by Oleksiy Mishurin and Nikolai Litus.

Filming

The artistic council and most of the members of the film crew offered Nadezhda Rumyantseva for the main role, but the director sought to avoid cliches, and insisted on the candidacy of the little-known Estonian actress Terje Luik. Enough material was filmed with Luik, but at the working screening, the studio's management decided to remove her, because she was "too intelligent, cold and introverted," and comedy does not work.

The events of the movie revolve around a gas station on a highway between Kyiv and Kharkiv, filmed in Pyriatyn, Poltava Oblast. The film was shot on the territory of an operating gas station, however, due to the fire-unsafe lighting equipment at the gas station, the crew had to build a "filming" gas station nearby (the real gas station was located behind a fake desk).

The film featured many cars from the 1950s and early 1960s. The characters of the film Slavka and Bear ride the LAZ-Ukraine-1 bus (1961) and the BelAZ-540 truck (1962), and Cadillac Series 62 appears in the episode with foreigners.

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